On the 29-05-13 at around 4.00 am two armed assailants wearing balaclavas threatened staff at the Gisborne Service Station with a gun. Earlier this week, on the 27-05-13, there was an attempted robbery at the Macedon petrol station where staff were threatened. Victims of crime for financial support and professional advice call Victims of Crime…
DetailsThe crime rate across Victoria has increased by 3.8%. The total number of offences has increased by 5.6%, to a total of 403,618 offences up by 21,347 offences. Crime against the person has increased by 7.4%. Assaults are up 11.9%. Crime against property has decreased by 0.4%. Residential burglaries are up 1.2%. Theft of motor…
DetailsThe Victims Rights and Support Bill 2013 passed through the lower house on 22-05-13 and will now be debated in the upper house. NSW is in the process of abolishing its existing Victims Compensation Scheme and replacing it with a Victims Support Scheme that will significantly reduce the amount of financial compensation awarded to victims…
DetailsOn the 27-05-13 at around 3.00 pm a forty-year-old female was walking along a beach track in Sandringham when she was grabbed by a male assailant who dragged her into bushes where he physically assaulted her and attempted to sexually assault her. The female victim fought off the assailant and screamed for help at which…
DetailsOn the 23-05-13 at around 8.20 am an eleven year-old girl was the victim of an attempted abduction as she walked to school in Greensborough. The young victim was approached by a male aged in his forties to fifties soon after she was dropped off by her mother near her school. The assailant grabbed the young…
DetailsOn the 22-05-13 at around 12.00 am a twenty-eight-year-old male was involved in an altercation with another male which moved into the hotel car park. The male then produced a pen gun and drove his motor vehicle towards the victim before crashing into the hotel. The assailant was charged with numerous offences including conduct endangering…
DetailsOn the 19-05-13 at around 5.50 am a twenty-four-year-old male was walking along Carlisle Street in St Kilda when he became involved in an argument with a group of others. The victim was struck to the head with a bottle and was taken to hospital with serious injuries. Police are appealing for witnesses to the…
DetailsOn the 16-05-13 at around 8.30 pm a thirty-year-old male and a thirty-two-year-old female were walking through the McCrae Street car park in Dandenong when they were approached by a gang described to be of African appearance. The gang threatened to stab the two victims with bottles if they did not hand over their possessions.…
DetailsOn Sunday the 26-05-13 at around 5.30 am two men entered the milk bar on McCurdy Road in Herne Hill, one armed with a knife, and demanded cash from the shop assistant. The victim took cash from the till and placed it in a plastic bag provided by the assailants who then fled. Geelong CIU…
DetailsOn Saturday the 25th May 2013 at around 10.30 pm a thirty-eight-year-old female was walking along Hare Street in Echuca towards the Apex Park public toilets when a motor vehicle pulled up beside her and asked her if she wanted a lift. The female refused and some five minutes later the same male again approached…
DetailsOn Friday the 24-05-13 at around 7.40 pm three teenage males were assaulted with weapons by a gang of males in Springvale South. The three victims, aged eighteen and nineteen years, were walking in Burden Park when they were approached by a dark coloured motor vehicle containing a group of males. The victims fled and…
DetailsOn Thursday the 23-05-13 at around 8.00 pm two male offenders entered a liquor outlet on Cleevland Road in Ashwood and approached the counter and demanded cash from the staff. A fight then broke out resulting in a seventeen-year-old shop assistant being lacerated to his torso with a knife by one of the offenders. The…
DetailsA recent study by The Sentencing Advisory Council comparing the changes in sentence lengths, imprisonment rates and crime figures in Victoria over the last ten years has found: Since 2002 there has been an increase of more than 40%, some 5,000 people, in Victorian jails. The rate at which people are being sent to jail…
DetailsOn the 13-05-13 a forty-eight-year-old woman was travelling on the Frankston train when at around 2.40 pm a male in his twenties sat behind her and began to verbally abuse her. The female victim then stood up and activated the emergency button and sat next to another commuter for protection. When the train stopped at…
DetailsOn the 12-05-13 at around 12.45 am a twenty-two-year-old male was pursued by an unknown male offender on a bike from the car park of the Mentone Hotel. The offender soon caught up to the victim threatening him with physical violence and demanding his mobile phone. The victim handed over his phone and the assailant…
DetailsOn Tuesday the 21st May 2013 at around 1.15 pm a forty-eight-year-old man was involved in an argument with two men and a woman at the Footscray Railway Station. One of the men allegedly punched the elderly man to the face and he then stabbed one of the men to the shoulder. The two men…
DetailsOn Tuesday the 21-05-13 at around 10.00 pm police arrived at a home in Reservoir to find that a thirty-year-old male had been stabbed to his arm. The victim, believed to be the Essendon AFL footballer Nathan Lovett-Murray, was transported to the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Police have since arrested two males, a twenty-two-year-old and a seventeen-year-old.…
DetailsOn the 22-05-13 at around 3.00 pm a male offender entered a home on Georgette Crescent in Endeavour Hills and physically assaulted the seventy-three-year-old female resident with a sharp weapon. The elderly female victim sustained serious injuries to her neck and was transported to hospital for treatment. Casey CIU detectives are investigating the incident. If…
DetailsOn the 05-05-13 at around 9.50 pm a pizza delivery driver was ambushed and robbed while delivering a pizza to a home on Toogoolawah Drive in Melton. The three assailants were waiting in an adjacent vacant block when the driver arrived and the assailants then surrounded him and threatened him with a silver handgun before…
DetailsOn the 04-05-13 at around 4.45 am two men entered a home on Piccolotto Drive in Melton through an unlocked back door. The assailants were disturbed by the homeowner’s dog and fled on foot with a hand bag, bum bag and other stolen items. Melton police are appealing for witnesses. Victims of aggravated burglary call…
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